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PLANNING BOARD MINUTES MEETING OF JULY 10, 2019 A meeting of the Lexington Planning Board, held in Selectmen's Meeting Room, in the Town Office Building was called to order at 7:00 p.m. by Chair Richard Canale with members Ginna Johnson, Charles Hornig, Robert Peters, Bob Creech, Michael Leon, Associate Planning Board and planning staff Carol Kowalski and Lori Kaufman present. **********************DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION*********************** PUBLIC HEARINGS: 7 Hartwell Avenue, proposed change to zoning district designation: Chair Mr. Canale opened the continued public hearing at 7:02 p.m. with approximately 10 people in the audience. Present were Kristine Hung, attorney from Reimer and Braunstein and Frank DiPietro traffic consultant from the BSC Group. Ms. Hung asked which uses listed by right would the Board have issue with? Individual Board Member Comments: • This is only temporary zoning since all of the Hartwell Avenue area is going to be rezoned. This is to make sure the Board Members do not have any objections but also make sure you would not be made non-conforming. • You should be guided by the uses permitted for the CM District and do not believe any uses are not good. • The following uses would not be good for this site: real estate sales or rental offices, hardware, wallpaper, and paint stores, building materials, lawn and garden supplies and equipment shops, and stores for rentals conducted in part outdoors with 24 hour displays. • The primary intent is school instruction with compatible uses. The applicant should decide what should be in or out. In the CM District manufacturing would not be acceptable, but am comfortable with uses allowed with the CSX District. Ms. Hung said they do not want outdoor storage of unregistered vehicles, kennels for boarding of pets, or a funeral parlor. • Just make sure that the dimensional controls of the CSX District are acceptable and there are no variances or special permits that would be required. Ms. Hung said the only problem would be the roof line is higher then what is permitted. Would there be phone towers or anything higher placed on the roof? Ms. Hung said no, but we will see what part of the roof exceeds the 25 foot height limit.